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The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney made the announcement in a six-minute YouTube video. Most of her announcement was an attack on President Barack Obama, with only a veiled swipe at the incumbent.

Far out in the America west, under the big skies and rough-hewn landscapes of Wyoming, near the town that William "Buffalo Bill" Cody gave his name, a race is on for the soul of America.

And it is a woman with a familiar surname in US politics that is asking for a chance to lead a renewed assault on Washington and rid America of, what she sees as, the scourge of Barack Obama, impending socialism and the grasping hand of big government.

Liz Cheney – 46-year-old daughter of former US vice president Dick Cheney – doesn't stand much over five feet tall in her cowboy boots, but from behind her sunglasses she radiates the kind of toughness that suits a place where you can still legally take a six-shooter into a bar. >>>

On foreign policy Mrs Cheney unapologetically carries forward the neo-conservative doctrines of her father who remains a bitterly divisive figure in US politics – even among Republicans.

"This president came into office, I believe, intending to weaken the nation," she says, tapping into the nastier side of the Right's caricature of Mr Obama as a "Muslim" and a "traitor." >>>

She has name recognition both from her family and her work on Fox News; she has her father's formidable fundraising network; and her opponent, Senator Mike Enzi, is a ponderous figure who after 18 unremarkable years in office, Mrs Cheney will argue, is ripe for the plucking.

And while her Wyomingite credentials might be suspect, there can be no doubting her conservative lineage and Tea Party bona fides which have some on the Right of Republican party already speculating about Mrs Cheney as a possible vice-presidential candidate – "a Sarah Palin with brains" as one put it.

But that is all, possibly, in the future. For now, Mrs Cheney says has eyes only for Wyoming and for storming Washington where she promises to join the ranks of Republicans – like the Texas Senator Ted Cruz – who want to refuse to fund Mr Obama's health care reform even if it means shutting down the government, and who equate deal-making and compromise with betrayal and selling out.

I am suggesting the possibility that GotNews.com might be a hoax or troll site making @#$% up. I based that comment on the PJMedia article I linked, whose description and quotes from the killer's FB...